Word: hawkishness
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...Sharon likes to joke that the tough-talking Ben-Eliezer is even more hawkish than himself. Burg is the thoughtful dove who, despite supporting strong military action in response to the current intifada, believes that Israel ultimately has no choice but to resume talks with the Palestinians. Those positions, of course, are not incompatible in the short term - Labor's caretaker leader Shimon Peres has, in his capacity as Sharon's foreign minister, been pursuing cease-fire talks with Yasser Arafat even as Ben-Eliezer has been sending tanks into Palestinian-controlled territories. And a strong feeling that they were...
...problem: that speech was nearly two years ago. Having planted his flag, Bush rarely spoke of restructuring again and retreated into vagaries about strengthening the U.S. military after "years of neglect" by the Clinton Administration. And those vagaries were duly taken by hawkish Republicans and Pentagon officials to mean simply that more money - even more than Clinton threw blindly at the Pentagon at budget time every year to keep those hawks and soldiers off his back - was on the way from the new GOP president...
...alarmed by what has been perceived as a strongly unilateralist instinct of the Bush administration. And a more assertive Democratic leadership in the Senate may also reinforce the position of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the administration's ranking foreign policy dove, in areas of conflict with the more hawkish Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld. But it also sounds a message on the world stage that the President's is not necessarily the last word of the United States - a problem with which a certain Mr. Clinton was more than a little familiar...
...that kept the relationship on track. Media speculation had it that Papa Bush and some of his advisers had weighed in gently at the height of the crisis, and if this is so it is to be welcomed - after all, the advice of Bush the Elder helps counter the hawkish instincts of Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld...
...even for the notoriously hawkish Sharon, the options are limited. Indeed, the Israeli prime minister finds himself in the unusual position of having to restrain hawks in his cabinet and security forces (as well as his challenger for the party leadership, Benjamin Netanyahu) who are urging an all-out offensive designed to destroy the Palestinian Authority and force the PLO leadership back into exile. Sharon knows this would seriously jeopardize Israel's international position, and could even irrevocably destabilize its relations with its Arab neighbors. And the result would simply be to clear the playing field of those Palestinian leaders...